do you destroy leads army, an army that sophisticated? no. no. meade must have read that dispatch with some dismay. the bar of success was no way up here. on the night of the 13th of july, lee evacuated those trenches. he had built a pontoon bridge across the potomac and falling waters. took 68 hours to build an 800 foot span of bridges. and got that army across the potomac. absolutely remarkable story to be -- what is lincoln say? meade had only to stretch out his hands and they were hours. a golden opportunity, he said, of destroying a lease army was squandered. meade wanted to lead we escaped so there wouldn't be another battle. these are remarks from the president. folks, i hope you get a glimpse today from this and hopefully you'll buy the book and get a better glimpse. you get a glimpse today of just exactly what was facing george meade. it was just horrific yet he got that army there. though the army escaped. and meade came under this scorn to all his credit. to all his credit. never once did meade say a word about it. meade, to me, genera

the army had to roads to move the entire army on. it would've been a big gigantic traffic jam of the army if he had tried to move their. he also had to reckon with antietam creek. which crossings the army could use. what was the best place to cross? where was the confederate position? no attack was gonna take place until the 16th. that is where i think lee takes the measure of mcclellan. he is confident that he will not be attacked on the 16th. if he is attacked it will be so late in the day he'll be able to hold his position. he clearly feels that with mcclellan, although he has been surprised at south mountain, this is a commander i know. i know what he is going to do, how he is going to operate. he is going to be pretty cautious and careful. he's gonna do everything by the rules. he's not gonna do anything outside of the rules. that is how i think we felt about mcclellan. >> bob stone, like the woods, virginia. my understanding of special order 191, lee expected jackson's man to have enveloped and captured harpers ferry by the 13t

we have on our panel today the secretary of the army, the chief of staff of the army. the panel will give them an opportunity for any open remarks and then for questions. these wait for me to call you. -- call on you. we are pressed for time so to the extent you're able to please limit it to one follow up and be respected over those in the room. please lead off with your name. >> i'm not getting give opening remarks. i'm guessing you all heard all you want and want to get the questions. open it up to you. >> we are ready to go. >> good morning. this is for the secretary and the chief, you've all talked a lot about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. i'm hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year and do you have an assessment at this point whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp? >> i would say it's very early to be speculating about where we will land by 2023 so i don't think we are in a good position to answer that question right now. we have started

troops the army potomac realized. we wanted to battle against lee. we advanced into virginia. we fought a battle. and we're advancing. first time that's happened that has not happened before not under mclellan. pope burnside hooker every time the army the potomac advances in virginia and they fight a battle. and they go back and they retreat this time. they fought a battle against the army of northern virginia and their advancing. it was a hard battle casualties were high. i was i'm very unpleasant experience, but we won this battle. we're advancing now. how do you decide who wins the battle soldiers by the way, they're cheering here. i don't know if you can see they're waving their hats and cheering there was quite a cheer a grant was eager to get them to be quiet because we don't want lee to know where we're moving any place. how do you know who won a battle is it is the side that one the side that suffers fewer casualties you know, we haven't gotten to world war two yet, but if the side that takes the fewest casual

your army is very poorly. re-equip your army. resupply your army. bring up some of the convalescing wounded, sick men that are in richmond and your army will be bigger safe move. it's a safe move. negative surrender the initiative, the enemy. if you know anything about robert e lee. he never, ever likes to do. that. invade maryland. a third option leaves. northern virginia. open. all right the battlefield. second. manassas. just trying to collect all this equipment off the field. you also give a break to the area of northern virginia. you also give the conscription officers an opportunity to get into areas to conscript soldiers in area that have been overrun by the yankees, maintain the pressure on the federals. they've got to react. you go in, you go into maryland. they have to react to that. you force the enemy to take the field before are ready. that's why you don't want to go to warrenton. they come at when they want to. you force the issue. they come at you when you want them. before they're ready. before they're reorganized. before these 300,0

army rank of colonel porter, officially retired from the army. four days later. weakened by the ravages of diabetes, he died on may 21st, 1901. the unhappy fate of fitz john porter is a story of unfairness, even cruelty meted out to a soldier whose only military crime had been the same myopia in the fog of war that afflicts all but the acute possessors of the ku doyle, the coo of the eye. in those last days before him, cheatham, frederick hitchcock was impressed by his of porter, a small, young looking man with full black whiskers and keen black eyes who dressed very modestly with a high black slouch and a much battered gold tasseled band. but it may be difficult to say more than that about him. porter departed, with the sincere regrets of all his, but not near mutiny. his humiliation recorded massachusetts soldier was enough. move a heart of stone. but by this time old army had become a heart of stone and porter did not move it much. he was neither a traitor nor idol, nor was he, as otto isaac schimmel wanted to portray him an american dreyfus. so in the end, hi

, the army of virginia, with mcclellan's army, the army of the potomac, returning then from the peninsula. and the deeper in virginia that that happened, the better was for the union cause. but his first task was to see to the junction of those two armies. halleck warned him, henry halleck, who was the new general in chief, who was an abject failure in that role. we could actually include him as one of the architects here, but nobody likes to hear about henry halleck. halleck warned polk, don't let the enemy separate you from alexandria. and of course, polk would fail in that mandate as well. of all the steps of all the acts that led to pope's defeat at second manassas, mcdowell was party to almost all of them in some way, shape or form, and he is active by any attempted to rectify really only one of them, so far as we know now early in the campaign as the army sparred along the rapidan first and then the rappahannock river, john pope and irvin mcdowell and notably john pope himself performed reasonably well, frustratingly along the rivers, withdrawing back across there are the rappahanno

army. what role does research and development play in the army of 2030? >> research and development is important. first of all, especially, i talked a bit my speech about looking ahead to 2040 and figuring out what the next generation capabilities. that is a big place where we can use r&d to help us understand that. to get some -- at least looking at new potential technologies and capabilities. we are making sure we find research and development. we are largely through army futures command doing a lot to have partnerships with academia. so we can leverage the cutting-edge coming out of academia. they are doing a lot of interesting research. the army research lab they speak role. >> hi, matt boehner from defense daily. there has been conversation about the role of command when it relates to asol. as all of these signature systems move from developing to feel. how do you view the potential shifting role of command, 2030 and beyond. is it more about emphasis on concept development? how can that shift as futures command heads into the near future, post 35 fut

do you destroy lee's army and army that's sophisticated. no. mead must have read that dispatch with some dismay suddenly the bar of his success was now way up here. on the night of the 13th of july lee evacuated those trenches. he had built upon pontoon bridge's across the potomac and falling waters took him 68 hours to build a 800 foot spans of bridges and got that army across the potomac. it's an absolutely remarkable story to be and and what is what is lincoln say? mead had only to stretch out his hands and they were ours. a golden opportunity. he said of destroying lee's army was squandered. mead wanted to let lee escape, so there's no so there wouldn't be another battle. these were remarks from the president. well folks i hope you get a glimpse today from this. and hopefully you'll buy the book and get a bigger limit you get a glimpse today of just exactly what was facing george made. it was just horrific. yet he got that army there. though the army escaped and mead came under this scorn. to all his credit. to all his credit never once did

the army of virginia. number three, pope is to attack the critical rail lines, confederate rail lines, in communications with gordon till and charlottesville. this will force robert e. lee to send huge reinforcements, away from the confederate capital and mclelland can hopefully turn the tide of the campaign on the virginia peninsula. these challenges, all of these things that pop is fighting against, began to change. and they weigh on him. phil carney -- what a great reputation he has. we'll say this about pope's challenge -- how do they expect hope to be, with a very inferior force, the veterans of you will and jackson? get me my fighting division with pope and with popes army, i will breathe again. just several days into the campaign, however, popes men are defeated at cedar mount. and that defeat and his pulling back from that battlefield, surrendered to robert e. lee. lee will seize that initiative immediately and he will begin to capitalize on all that it will provide him. as the second manassas camp

because grant is present with the army, so grant is responsible for what the army does. if grant were in washington, and meade decided to do something dumb with the army, grant would be responsible in the sense that he was in command of meade, but he wouldn't have known what happened. whereas when grant is present with the army, he is responsible to a greater degree. he almost has to intervene until mid mead, no, don't send us guys over there, send them over here. send that core over here. he's got to do that. this sets up a constant tension through the whole camp and through the rest of the war between grand trying to supervise meade and yet trying to give me to some degree of independence, to let him command the army of potomac. probably, again, what might be better would be if meade recognized himself as a chief of staff in the army at the potomac. i like the idea that would help would have been better, there would've been problems with it, but for granted to bring his friend james b mcpherson out from the west. i think mcpherson and grant would work well together, wi

army. he's got his leather gear, his leather gear, which has to ammunition pouches in front and one in the rear. he's got his 1917 gas mask and his image is la belle rifle. and if you turn around and he's carrying his pack, he's got his sheepskin up here, which is used to keep him warm. he's got his mesh tin, he's got a piece of squad gear, he's got his have or sack in which he carries his extra rations in. and he's got and he's got his canteen. is this the way he would have been equipped at the beginning of the war? did this develop over time? no. this is this is the final iteration and this is the final iteration of the of the french uniform world war one. remember, they started the war with bright red trousers and red capiz and and dark uniforms. but as as the war progressed, they realized it was very poor camouflage. and they and the uniform actually started to to evolve the french uniform goes through 3 to 4 specific variations of the uniform of a uniformed knowing the war as they modi

and then professor army became he became congressman army and leader army. and he and his entire team many of whom you've seen tonight and there are many others. proved that if you work long hours at their job. you don't make an extra penny. but just like my dad who earned time and a half benefited his family -- and his team. their hard work have benefited all of our families. and you can live without assurance --. you are a man to quote your own book not about you, but i'm going to quote it back to you our man of great great stature as well as a man of great. status there are two men in my life. without whom i would never be a united. they're both named richard. they're both from can do. and i love you both. thank you. thank you so much senator. that was so fabulous. by the way. i apologize. i forgot to mention the most important person in this room susan army, susan. thank you for everything you've done. so i asked a few people. would you like to say something about your husband? all right. i can't wait to hear what you have to say. ladies and gentlemen, s

army meeting. they also talk about recent issues regarding social media use and the war in ukraine. >> good morning. this is for both the secretary and the chief, you have talked a lot about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. i'm hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year. do you have an assessment at this point whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp? >> i would say it's very early to be speculating about where we will land by the end of fy 2023 so i don't think we are in a good position to answer that question right now. we have started this prep ce , the early results of that look promising. and depending on how that plays out in the next month or two i think we will look at expanding that to some additional training sites which would obviously help us. another thing we've done is we've partnered with our recruiting brigades so that frankly we are increasing the profile at even

june 27, pope will soon clement the army of virginia. lincoln has chosen pope for political purposes, not for his battlefield abilities. lincoln is not at this time ready to relieve general mcclellan. his other factors are going into this decision, secretary chase and edwin stanton have chosen pope because he will fight a hard relentless contest unsparing of southern populace especially in virginia. chase argues to lincoln and stanton about bringing him east and giving command primarily on the ground of policy and doing so with patronage. stanton told objective for pope is to humiliate mcclellan. imagine them placed in a situation you told your commanding officers this is not the command for me, it will not be successful. being placed in this position with sub context and minds and now you are expected to be successful on it. pope premieres again and says i just don't want this position, send me back west but the question comes in at this moment for historical debate, who else would be the right fit at this moment? can administration nee

so the army numbered these. george washington is number one as george washington commander, chief of the army, the united states of america do acknowledge the united states of america to be a free, independent, sovereign states, declare the people thereof. no, oh, no. allegiance or obedience to george, the third king of great britain. so right off the bat, much different than our our oath today. obviously. so you'll notice there's a space in the middle where they were the word swear there was a few religious groups at the time there was a passage in matthew. they take very literally that says you can't swear under god. so that's where they could swear or affirm. washington swore that'll do the utmost in his power to support maintain defend the united states against the said king george the third his heirs and successor in his or their betters. so the whole royal family is covered signed by washington and then it has in the lower left hand corner on the bottom sworn before me camp at valley forge, may 12, 1778, a

she was in the army of potomac. she became ill, and then deserted from the army. so there was two things the pension office was getting her for. they were getting her for, women didn't serve in the military. then when she was able to prove, from affidavits that she served as franklin thompson, they said, well, if you desert you are ineligible for a pension. because that's what the law was. that's why it literally took an act of congress to overturn that. so she says in the middle, especially because i took the utmost pains to conceal and hide the facts of the case, then toward the bottom she said but being a woman, and underlined woman, i felt compelled to suffer in silence and endured as i could. in order to escape detection of my sex. she underlined, i would rather have been shot dead then two have been known to be a woman and sent away from the army as a criminal. she wrote a book after the civil war. what we do know is that she did serve as franklin thompson. we have evidence she served as a soldier. she wrote a book after the civil war that gets into a lot of

the movement also put butler's army in jeopardy, as grant would be much further away from the army of the james than would be the army of north virginia. lastly, [inaudible] was contrary about the administration expected grant [inaudible] and [inaudible] change of microphones. [laughs] [inaudible] and beyond that, the fear of losing washington. exposing washington to confederate forces. now let's face it, grant's results had not exactly been -- very complicated map, and probably more complicated than you need to try to inculcate from your seats out there. but it shows you the planning the grant went into in order to get this movement to the james. the first thing he did had nothing to do with going south. the first thing he did was to detatch phil sheridan, and two thirds of the cavalry to make a raid north against the virginia central railroad. ultimately he hoped that sheridan would link up with the union forces coming east from the shenendoah valley, but more imports from our purposes, the raid would naturally compel lee to detach some of his own cavalry in order to counter sherida

i mean still living soldiers of the army. regional polish diplomats do what they want on the territory of belarus and for some reason believe that this will be forever, trying to prove to the whole world that despite the events of more than 80 years, supposedly the grodno region and the former rats were not former and that diplomacy is international are contracts the same? and the fact that the authorities are more tormented by phantom pains, and the loss of these lands. and it's transmitted from president to president. and this is different, and i’m with you ksenia lebedeva hello today i want to once again recall the army, i’ll remind you of the region, this is the main organization of the polish resistance, which at the same time fought against the nazis and against the soviet government under the leadership of the government in exile, which merged a cozy nest in london and worked closely with the british intelligence services , the polish resistance army ak is a pain. belarus is the pain of generations that lived on the te

that's how the me army have operated for decade . so yes, we've seen some, some movement on the manager and assistance, but it's linda. mood only goes from a places where the me am, are army a lot of the know not to everywhere where it's needed. but other things on that point when i came out a year and a half ago that my army agreed to on the time. and then walked it back shortly after there's been no into guilty. there's been no construct a dialogue between the parties. 7 the ocoee and on boy has not had access to me on the stakeholders involved. so you know, the army has just allowed any progress where they want that progress to happen. journals, dave, going around. thank you very much for your time. sure, thank. well, malaysia is among the nation's urging or pressure to be put on me and my military rulers, foreign ministers from the association of southeast asian nations or ozzy and have been holding special talks on the crisis. they made in the indonesian capital jakarta on thursday minus representatives from me and my the group

but when it comes to sanctions on the me, i'm our army. a lot of those sanctions have been sort of peace now with different countries actually sort of independent from one another. so they've got to try and cut off the access to the money flow. that means money to get from oil and gas. what do they get from timber, gemstones and rare earth? those are big natural resources that the patented, all the me, i'm, our army is getting money from somehow to the national community. we've got to find a way to stop that. just briefly. me and my is cooperating with the international community on one front at least in seeking humanitarian aid. but that's no surprise is it? when a food crisis is looming? thanks to its actions that at 130000 ranger detained in camps. yeah, so if you look at the 5 point plan, they came out a year and a half ago that the army at the time agreed to with the association of the page nation. one point was humanitarian assistance. the other 4 points, there's been no progress on at all, but humanity systems, there has been limite

, what kind of army are we? a certain exaggeration here, and i think that these passages from the russian position are also aimed at erasing this collective responsibility and collective guilt, which will now begin to be told what are they? look, it’s not the russians, it’s a beauty, but it’s putin’s army, it’s someone else’s army over there. and it’s the golden army, and ordinary russians are not guilty of anything. well, it’s obvious here that such a… we are concerned about the fact that right now they are here on the radio about the fact that the gold is to blame for everything there and the russian is not to blame, and that is why they should be released there, they should be given asylum, they should be given some kind of proverbs for living in the european union, all this we have already heard, but this is a very, very dangerous narrative not only for ukraine, he is dangerous, first of all, for the countries that have a border with the russian federation , and secondly, he is dangerous for the european uni

she is an army helicopter pilot, but currently for her second time is an army doctor and writer. originally, she is from buffalo, new york and is very emotionally conflicted. every time the chiefs and bills play each other, she has been stationed around the united states in germany and as well as in korea, which in her own words was super, super fun. she has multiple degrees and studies, both history as well as museum studies. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming to the stage. lieutenant colonel nikki dean. so thank you all for the extremely warm welcome. i will say it's a bit it's a bit daunting to be standing on this side of the podium as opposed to sitting out in the audiences where i usually am for this incredible institution, as james said, my name is nikki, and tonight i would like to talk with you about something that is incredibly important to the life that i have led for the last 20 years. as a soldier. but more importantly, to talk about an amazing insight into this constantly evolving and changing world, where i work, which is an us army doctrine. i have a

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yes that is he created a parallel army from his own people, and now the army is now beheaded, and withwe see that the army is in no hurry to support the people there are people in the army who want to support these protests, but they don't they are still waiting for the protests to become more revolutionary so that the people will loudly declare that they are on the side of the people, but you are talking about the democratic rank, but if you look at the history of your country, there is practically no experience in building a democratic state. well, iran passed to the status of an islamic republic from a shava state, in which there was a short period of attempts at such parliamentarism. well, even during the time of prime minister masadek, but everything ended with the restoration of the prerogatives of the shah of the muhammedrizi left by the way, we don't know what iran would be like if this step did not succeed, because the government was also a kindergarten, i would say pregnant with certain authoritarian tendencies . democracy, and why are you being asked about this? i remember s

and with the army of virginia. then to move to the pontoon bridge that the confederates maintained at the bluff just in case those federal should appear on the south side of the river. and his grand arranged and to speculate of the intention of their enemy and to respond to an inquiry earlier that afternoon by speculating that the enemy must be preparing to go south of the james. some of course the new all large body had moved south but then he could also be at harrison's landing just like two years earlier he could be resupplied for another movement against richmond south of the river. and all of those federal's boarding boats might be the regiments that had their terms of enlistment expire and headed home was thousands were doing that. we have to be guarded but that did not equate changing focus yet from richmond to petersburg so beauregard so he beseech the department was some combination of the army that attacked him. i cannot be responsible for consequences. when his appeal elicited no response, beauregard too

the four in the army of the potomac, and balmy smith's 18 corps, which had joined meads army prior to cold harbor. he each core disengaged from north to south, following carefully selected routes in order to expedite the movement to the james river, while the 18th corps would march to white house landing on the potomac river and take water transportation to get back to the area north of the appomattox river. now the chickahominy river, for the other four corps, would pose the first obstacle to this movement. describe it when you officer of a wide ditch partly choked by web logs and full of brown, tepid, sickly water, whose slow current would scarcely carry a straw along. the plan called for the army to move across the chickahominy in three different places, by building pontoon bridges there. now, in order to follow that other precept of convincingly lee he was moving towards richmond, north of the james river the way mcallen had approached it in 1862, meade said two divisions of the core and number grade of cavalry toward an important crossroads known as glendale, or on this map, ridd